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• From The Life Of The Marionettes | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in Munich while Bergman was in self-imposed exile from Sweden, From the Life of the Marionettes is not so much a "whodunit" as a "whydunnit". The film opens with the shockingly violent and senseless murder of a prostitute by Peter, a young, successful businessman. Through a series of non-chronological flashbacks to a time before the crime, we attempt to fathom just what impelled Peter to perpetrate this terrible murder. Along with wife Katarina, the character Peter also featured in Bergman's 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage. Here, as there, we see that they are wedded in the sense of being emotionally chained to each other, yet hating each other for their mutual dependency. There is also a perturbing scene in which they both appear to "get off" when he takes a knife to her throat. His cold and duplicitous psychiatrist glibly ascribes the murder to a repressed homosexuality resulting in a violent outburst, while Katarina's business partner, who is gay, appears to harbour a desire to sabotage the pair's marriage. This film has an airless, fake-lit quality about it, which reflects the conditions of the characters' lives but by the end, leaves you mesmerised and still uncertain as to why what happened has happened. A late but great Bergman work. On the DVD: This edition adequately enhances the stark monochrome in which most of the film is set. Bergman's notes reveal that his depictions of Peter in his psychiatric ward were based on his own behaviour during a recent spell in a similar institution following his arrest for tax evasion. Philip Strick's critical notes observe that the sparing use of colour at the beginning and end of the film signify what may have been the only times in Peter's life when he "experienced reality". --David Stubbs

• Carmen | DVD | (12/02/2003) from £28.55   |  Saving you £1.44 (5.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  All too often Bizet's great comic opera Carmen has been pared down to its basic bodice-ripping components, leaving its adored melodies with only torrid clichés to cling on to. Nothing of the sort happens here. David McVicar's 2002 production for Glyndebourne restores it to its rightful place as a stupendous musical entertainment. Bold, lusty, tightly directed and designed in sanguine shades of red and black, this Carmen spills and bustles across the stage and out of the screen like a living painting. At first glance, Anne Sofie von Otter is not an obvious choice for the title role, but just look at how she seizes and inhabits the character, wrenching her from the jaws of dark, sultry stereotype and rendering a complex modern woman. Her Carmen both revels in and is tormented by the ripe sexuality that fascinates her lovers and sets her apart from the other women. Von Otter's interpretation suggests it has its roots in a hinterland of wretched, bitter experience; the "Habanera", the "Gypsy Song" and the "Seguidilla" become multi-layered expressions of hope and desire: we never forget that for all its gusto, Carmen ends up a tragedy. And the men aren't ciphers. Laurent Naouri's proud Escamillo and Marcus Haddock's immature, damaged Don José are rounded, richly sung characters. So too, is Lisa Milne's touching Micaëla. All told, this Carmen is full-length, fibrous and, with conductor Philippe Jordan at the helm, a triumph. On the DVD: Carmen is spread over two discs, presented in anamorphic widescreen format that opens up the stage and capitalises on some refreshingly brisk camerawork. The sound quality (Digital Surround sound) is finely balanced. A rich set of extras includes fascinating short documentaries on various aspects of the production, from stage fights to characterisation and costume design. There's also a useful spoken synopsis and a stroll through the famous Glyndebourne Gardens. --Piers Ford

• Martin | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  See it with someone you're sure of! Before Let The Right One In there was Martin the original story of teenage angst... and vampirism! George A. Romero (Dawn of the Dead) directs this chilling tale of a tormented youngster with an insatiable appetite for blood! Martin is seemingly your average awkward teen; only he just happens to have a penchant for the blood of nubile women! Suspicious of Martin's nocturnal activities the lad's uncle decides he must be killed believing his death will lift an age-old family curse but he'll have to catch him first... Martin is a brilliant cult curio from the 1970s and is rightly considered to be one of master horror-maker Romero's finest films.

• Galaxy Of The Dinosaurs | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Simply one of the cheesiest films ever made with a group of space travellers transported back to the earth when dinosaurs roamed. Nil special effects plastic dinosaurs and a hilarious commentary track from the director who should have known better.

• Tess Of The D'Urbervilles | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £15.75   |  Saving you £-5.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men. Tess's journey from innocent country maiden to tragic ruined heroine is a story of love prejudice and hypocrisy in an era of Victorian values.

• Rugrats Movie, The / Rugrats In Paris | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rugrats - The Movie With the birth of his new baby brother Dylan Tommy Pickles knew things were about to change but he never expected that being a big brother could be such an adventure. While attempting to return little Dil to the Hospital the Rugrats commandeer the Reptar Wagon and inadvertently get lost in the forest! It's a rollicking musical ride into a world beyond their backyard as the Rugrats encounter obstacles and some big surprises in their quest to get back home

• Cousin Cousine | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Marthe and Ludovic discover that their respective partners are having an affair they plan a series of 'accidental' meetings.

• Staunton Hill | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £9.26 (137.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Uncle Adolf | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £22.96   |  Saving you £-2.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This major new TV drama broadcast on ITV1 explores the real Hitler through the relationship with his teenage niece Geli Raubal... As the shells rain down on his battered Berlin Bunker in 1945 a bitter and defeated Hitler remininisces about the major events in his life - from his meteoric rise to notoriety to his obsession with his adored niece Geli Raubal. Starring Ken Stott (The Vice & Messiah) and brought to life by BAFTA award-winning writer Nigel Williams this is the r

• What Love May Bring | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £4.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (70.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  What War May Bring is the explosive story of war-torn Europe through the eyes of the beautiful and enigmatic Ilva and two American soldiers, featuring dramatic battle sequences and epic Normandy landing scenes.

• Harold And Kumar Get The Munchies/Dodgeball/Dude, Where's My Car? | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  DodgeBall (Dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber 2004): You'll dodge duck dip dive...and laugh out loud watching Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller settle their differences in a winner-take-all dodgeball competition! Under the painful tutelage of legendary ADAA champ Patches O'Houlihan (Rip Torn) Peter LaFleur (Vaughn) and his Average Joe's take on the Purple Cobras led by egomaniacal fitness guru White Goodman (Stiller). It's an over-the-top underdog tale filled with hilarious sight gags and balls-out fun! Dude Where's My Car? (Dir. Danny Leiner 2000): Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott) got really wasted last night. The fridge is packed with pudding their girlfriends - ""The Twins"" - are ticked off and somehow Jesse's car has disappeared. So the hapless stoners set out to find the car which happens to have their girlfriends' anniversary presents in it. But they soon discover that losing the car isn't half the story. High school hottie Christie (Kristy Swanson) is mysteriously hot for Jesse Chester is a favourite customer at the local topless club and they owe a suitcase full of money to a transvestite stripper. On top of all that they're being pursued by a minivan full of geeks horny ""space babes "" and a couple of ""totally gay"" Scandinavian dudes - all trying to find the ""continuum transfunctioner "" the device that can save or destroy the universe... Harold And Kumar Get The Munchies (Dir. Danny Leiner 2004): Two twenty-something stoner room mates one a Korean American investment banker the other an Indian American medical school candidate go through a life changing journey as they spend a night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers...

• Three Businessmen | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £18.23   |  Saving you £-12.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alex Cox's Three Businessman is an existentialist fable for the independent businessman. Two travelling art dealers staying in a labyrinthine Liverpool hotel, Frank King (Alex Cox) and Bennie Reyes (Miguel Sandoval of Clear and Present Danger), sit down for dinner only to find that the hotel staff have deserted them. They begin to walk the Mersey streets in search of sustenance, talking about dogs, dinner, the "Plutonium" credit card and the state of the world. But lost without a map, they inadvertently wander half way across the world on public transport in search of their hotel, touching down in Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Japan and Spain. In a desert, they come across a third businessman, Leroy Jasper (Robert Wisdom), clutching a replica of the Mir space station. Soon after, they stumble across a food stand outside a small abode that holds within it the true object of their quest. It is a destination that they have found without looking for. This small, mannered movie grows in stature as it progresses. Sandoval and Cox are amiably crotchety travelling companions. Aided and abetted by jump cuts, the surrealist conceit that allows the businessman to roam across the world without ever realising they have left Liverpool is distinctly Bunuelian (cf. the name of Cox's production company Exterminating Angel Films). On the DVD: An amusing commentary by Alex Cox and writing partner and producer Tod Davies has the added bonus of Cox acting out deleted scenes. The feature appears in widescreen format with an excellent sound and picture transfer, enhanced by Pray for Rain's melancholic soundtrack. But the Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop promo video promised on the sleeve and liner notes does not appear anywhere on the disc. --Chris Campion

• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters Collector's Box Set | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It’s a frighteningly hilarious look at the lives of monsters-in-training at the Monster Academy under the city dump. This Collector’s Edition of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters features over 6 hours of laugh-out-loud lessons in the art of proper scare techniques. Find out what happens when you leave your monster manual in the human world check out Krumm’s giant pimple and see Ickis burping fire! Celebrate the annual shedding of skins help Oblina find her brain and be on the lookout for the Gromble's missing nephew. All this and lots more scares in this great 4 disc collection.   Volume 1: Scary doesn't get any sillier than Season 1 of the hit Nickelodeon show Aaahh!!! Real Monsters! These monsters-in-training make fright a hoot as they try to learn the tricks of the scary monster trade. Check out Ickis Oblina and Krumm and their herculean efforts to master The Gromble's class on proper scare techniques. Volume 2: Ickis Oblina and Krumm are back for a second season of spine-chilling gut-busting adventures! Sit back and enjoy as these three young monsters take everything they’ve learned from The Gromble about scaring and put it to good use. That is of course unless they’re trapped by Simon the most determined monster-hunter in town! Volume 3: Your three favourite little monsters are back! And Aaahh!!! Real Monsters’ third season promises to thrill chill and tickle your spine not to mention your funny bone with more adventures! Watch as they avoid capture by the monster hunter Simon and take on the world with everything they’ve learned about scaring from their headmaster The Gromble! Volume 4: The spooky and the silly collide one last time in Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: The Final Season! Ickis Oblina and Krumm are back for their fourth and final year of eerie animated adventures. Under the watchful eye of their headmaster Gromble these three young monsters are ready to show the world what they’ve learned at the Monster Academy — if they can stay out of trouble long enough!

• Step by Step: The Complete First Season | DVD | (12/06/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Adventures of Bailey - The Christmas Hero | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's Christmas time at the Baker household, and Bailey is at it again. Worried that he will not get any presents from Santa because he's been a bad doggie, Bailey learns about a mysterious Native American Indian called the Handsome Fellow who just might be able to make his Christmas wishes come true! With thoughts of tennis balls, stuffed animals and more dog bones then he can count, he sets out to find this legend, bringing his brother Duke along for the ride. But when Bailey's blunders cause harm to Duke and even threaten their family's Christmas plans, he must not only find a way to save his brother, but he is also forced to make a big decision - one that just might enable him to finally understand the true meaning of Christmas.

• 9.1/2 Weeks / Showgirls / Body Of Evidence | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  9 1/2 Weeks: Elizabeth (Basinger) is a Soho gallery worker romantically uninvolved since a painful divorce. John (Rourke) is a wealthy commodities broker emotionally alone no matter who he's with. A chance meeting draws them into each other's worlds. Obsession takes them further into a mutual world of eroticism and emotional awakenings. Showgirls: Leave your inhibitions at the door and experience the sensation of Showgirls Las Vegas the pleasure capital of the world where stardom can be found..at a price. Fuelled by naked ambition Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) is willing to pay that price working as a stripper and lap-dancer in the seedy back room of the Cheetah Club. She is soon discovered by Cristal (Gina Gershon) the seductive star of the biggest sexiest show in Vegas who together with her lover Zack (Kyle MacLachlan) gives her the chance to fulfil her wildest dreams. Behind the glamour lies the sordid side to the nightlife full of traps set with lust and jealousy. Body Of Evidence: Seductive gallery owner Rebecca Carlson (Madonna) is accused of a unique crime - using violent sex to murder a wealthy businessman. Frank Dulaney (Willem Dafoe) is the lawyer trying to defend her helpless to resist her extraordinary brand of lovemaking...

• Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire / Schumann: Dichterliebe | DVD | (14/02/2002) from £4.18   |  Saving you £17.07 (584.59%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Song cycles--anthologies that tell a story--are perfect for visual treatment, and Oliver Herrmann has chosen two that typify the expressive and the expressionist. Subtitled "A Story of Red and Blue", Dichterliebe places Schumann's songs in a nightclub setting, intercutting them with rehearsal and pre-production sequences that don't shed much light on either the settings or their interpretation. Christine Schäfer captures the lovelorn feel of this music, and Natascha Osterkorn is a sensitive accompanist, but the peer presentation style could well grate on repeated viewing. One Night. One Life, Herrmann's presentation of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, is likely to prove more durable. Schäfer walks listlessly down corridors and through rooms of Dali-esque paranoia, emerging into the cold facelessness of a modern city, before retreating behind her own persona. The performance, directed by Pierre Boulez, is unfailingly good and this ought to attract new listeners to Schoenberg's light, ironic and ever-relevant cabaret. On the DVD: Dichterliebe and Pierrot Lunaire on disc are presented in a 16:9 picture format that reproduces with needle-sharp clarity, and the PCM stereo sound has the required immediacy and finesse. There are subtitles in four European languages and detailed introductions to both works are provided in the booklet. The lengthy interview with Schäfer is insightful, if not without an element of Blind Date, Fassbinder style! --Richard Whitehouse

• I Dreamt Under Water | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £10.78   |  Saving you £4.21 (28.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Love Is A Drug Sex An Addiction In this savagely poignant drama replete with brute emotion and raw lust a young man voyages through the dark heart of Parisian nightlife and the extremes of self-destruction. Angel-eyed Antonin - an aspiring musician - has been wallowing in unrequited love for his sexy enigmatic band mate Alex. But when the object of his desire suddenly dies in his arms one drug addled night he recklessly indulges the depths of his pain by descending into a seedy nocturnal world of public gay sex and hardcore rounds as a rent boy. Antonin continues spiraling downward until he meets Juliette - a vivacious beauty with a secret.

• Medusa Touch, The / The Boys From Brazil | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £10.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (18.63%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Medusa Touch: Richard Burton stars as successful novelist John Morlar who believes he has 'a gift for disaster' - the power to cause death and destruction through unconscious telekinesis. When Morlar is viciously assaulted and left for dead the night of the Moon Mission disaster and a jet crash police investigating the attack quickly turn to Morlar's mysterious therapist Zonfeld (Lee Remick) in the belief that there is a link between the assault and Morlar's disturbing co

• Land Girls Series One and Two Boxed Set | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £55.33   |  Saving you £-15.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This highly popular and award-winning drama set in the rural Forties follows the lives and loves of the land girls doing their bit for Britain having joined the Women's Land Army (WLA).As they adapt to their new surroundings and begin the hard work they realize that their lives will never be the same. As they live out their lives in the shadow of war they come to rely on each other more and more.Starring Mark Benton (Waterloo Road), Christine Bottomley (Hope Springs), Nathanial Parker (Injustice) and Sophie Ward (Holby City), this four disc set contains the entire first and second series.